{"id":9352,"date":"2026-10-02T07:45:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/?p=9352"},"modified":"2026-10-02T07:45:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:45:46","slug":"sometimes-the-session-just-isnt-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/sometimes-the-session-just-isnt-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes the Session Just Isn't There"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beachy Head Half Marathon 2026 Training Block - Week 8\/11<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Over &amp; Unders - 7.38km<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today was a rare failure to complete the planned session. The workout looked straightforward enough on paper:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1km at 5:30\/km<br>1km at 5:10\/km<br>Repeat three times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reality was rather different. I completed the first two sets, but by the time I got to the third, there was simply nothing left in the legs. I stopped, took a short rest and then headed out for a cool-down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Session over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I'm not entirely sure what caused it. The headwind along the seafront certainly didn't help. Neither did the 84% humidity. Add in a fairly heavy training load this week, possibly not enough carbs, questionable hydration and the fact that I already knew before leaving the house that this was going to be a tough session, and there are plenty of potential explanations. It was probably a combination of all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261002_075013-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261002_075013-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261002_075013-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261002_075013-767x432.jpg 767w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261002_075013-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261002_075013-2048x1153.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261002_075013-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biggest problem was the accumulated effort of the faster sections. Six kilometres alternating between 5:30\/km and 5:10\/km would have put a lot of that work around what is currently close to my 5K race pace. Today, that was simply too much. After the second set, I had nothing left to give.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I still covered 7.38km against the planned 9km, so I wasn't particularly short on distance. And despite not completing the workout, I managed to record my 7th-fastest 5K ever during the session. So I was definitely working hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I need to make sure I'm properly fuelled and hydrated when training loads increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"responsive-strava-container\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 100% !important;\">\n    <style>\n        \/* This targets the iframe that the Strava script generates inside the placeholder *\/\n        .responsive-strava-container iframe,\n        .responsive-strava-container .strava-embed-placeholder {\n            width: 100% !important;\n            max-width: 100% !important;\n            min-width: 100% !important;\n        }\n    <\/style>\n    \n<div class=\"strava-embed-placeholder\" data-embed-type=\"activity\" data-embed-id=\"20416184331\" data-style=\"standard\" data-from-embed=\"false\" data-token=\"y3riRbAlBK6Q5uo5MWvUfOIg0zkfMkCqeoxtrnhK57c\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/strava-embeds.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beachy Head Half Marathon 2026 Training Block - Week 8\/11 Over &amp; Unders - 7.38km Today was a rare failure to complete the planned session. The workout looked straightforward enough on paper: 1km at 5:30\/km1km at 5:10\/kmRepeat three times. The reality was rather different. I completed the first two sets, but by the time I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1603,1604,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-running","category-journal","category-blog"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9355,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9352\/revisions\/9355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}